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I have always found it amusing to put stock market outlooks in the context of personal life experiences.
And I have a new one to share with you dedicated Morning Brief readers today.
While I was running outside on July 4 in 90-degree weather in barefoot footwear as part of an obsessive workout regimen, I had a few passing thoughts on the direction of stocks going into the November presidential election.
The outlook reminds me of those childhood times when I did something bad, and my dad sought to discipline me. I would always run to the closet and close the door, somehow reasoning he wouldn’t find me in there next to my Transformers and Ninja Turtles toys.
Time after time, I was wrong — he found me, and I learned in those moments that there was truly nowhere to…
